Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt Archives - Unwinnable

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A brown giant mech standing in front of a bronze sky. This is an image from Mobile Suit Gundam Vol 5.

Gundam It – Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Vol. 5

By Austin Price • November 29th, 2017

Gundam Thunderbolt’s fifth volume is split between two contradictory halves.

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A blue grey robot rising up through shattered white elements. This is the cover from Mobile Suit Gundam

“Gundam as a Bag of Hammers” – Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Vol. 3

By Austin Price • May 24th, 2017

Because the author does not understand the feelings he’s presenting to us and so relies on a language cobbled together from cliches, trite imagery and banal symbols he’s aped from a million disparate influences he never bothered to understand to convey feelings he’s does not understand.

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“Every Gundam Time…” – MSG: Thunderbolt Vol.2

By Austin Price • March 1st, 2017

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt is a tonal mess that knows irony can be used to underpin horror to shocking effect, but has no clue how or when to implement said irony.

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Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Volume 1, “A Gundam Shame”

By Austin Price • January 4th, 2017

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt is achingly cool…cool in that grim, stupid, utterly unselfconscious way a Zack Snyder would eat up.